Lana Del Rey Quotes

I have taken taking my music to labels for years, and everyone just thought it was creepy. They thought the images with the music were weird and verging on psychotic.

[About Paz De La Huerta....] And there is this girl in the audience and she's gorgeous I can only kind of see her silhouette and she's getting like her t*ts out and I'm like: God, that's unusual.

Mary prays the rosary for my broken mind.

A lot of what's been written about me is not true: of my family history or my choices or my interests. Actually, I've never read anything written about me that was true. It's been completely crazy.

No matter how many people give me advice, I am going to do what my heart tells me to do

There's backlash about everything I do.

If my choice is to, I don’t know, be with a lot of men, or if I enjoy a really physical relationship, I don’t think that’s necessarily being anti-feminist. For me the argument of feminism never really should have come into the picture. Because I don’t know too much about the history of feminism, and so I’m not really a relevant person to bring into the conversation. Everything I was writing was so autobiographical, it could really only be a personal analysis.

It’s nice to be able to try and build the life you want for yourself.

I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.

I listen to a little Marina & The Diamonds. She has a song called 'Teen Idle' that I really like.

I'm not like a persona. I'm not a caricature of myself.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger is so not true. You know what makes you stronger? When people treat you & your art with dignity.

Sometimes I wish I was a beautiful machine so I could resist your kiss and not cry when you're mean.

I've making videos since I was seventeen I was originally discollecting vintage hmmm... footages from different archives and setting moving pictures to classical music clips that meant a lot to me. Maybe there were places I have been where nice things have happened. I had a vision of making my life a work of art and I was looking for people who also felt that way.

I believe in the person I want to become.

I believe that there is no doubts about who I am, an artist who loves music, above everything.

My idea of a true feminist is a woman who feels free enough to do whatever she wants.

I'm not really interested in a ton of female musicians but there is something about Britney that compelled me - the way she sings and just the way she looks.

For me, the issue of feminism is just not an interesting concept... Whenever people bring up feminism, I’m like, god. I’m just not really that interested.

I'm more interested in, you know, SpaceX and Tesla, what's going to happen with our intergalactic possibilities.

I just look for someone who makes me feel like life is an exciting opportunity and, you know, just like to be alive.

It's more about, when I found someone that made me feel really happy, that was so different to the way I'd felt before in my life.

Down on the West Coast I get this feeling like it all could happen.

Being brave means knowing that when you fail, you don't fail forever.

It takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it, to know what true freedom is.

I'd been sick on tour for about two years with this medical anomaly that doctors couldn't figure out. That's a big part of my life: I just feel really sick a lot of the time and can't figure out why. I'd gotten these shots in Russia, where we'd just been. It was just heavy. It's just heavy performing for people who really care about you, and you don't really care that much about yourself sometimes.

Don't make me sad, don't make me cry. Sometimes love is not enough and the road gets tough, I don't know why.

Who belonged to no one, who belonged to everyone. Who had nothing, who wanted everything.

The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same.

I'm happy when things are just kind of calm. I love going to the ocean. I love driving. I love going to shows. Just being with people I really have fun with. I love the summer. I'm happy in the summer. Love hot, hot weather. I'm happy when I'm making a record, most of the time.

Dope and diamonds, dope and diamonds, that's all that I want

I like a little hardcore love.

I don't really care about how good a song is, I only want them to reflect what I felt when I was writing them

I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me.

When you long you can not achieve anything when you repeatedly have to lose all that you had hoped, you gradually become still.

This is what makes us girls/ We don't stick together 'cause we put our love first.

Like a groupie incognito posing as a real singer, life imitates art.

It’s about a singer who first sneered about my allegedly not authentic style but later she stole and copied it. And now she’s acting like I am the art project and she the true super artist. My God and people actually believe her, she’s successful! I shouldn't continue ranting, it doesn’t get anywhere.

Bad things happen everyday but you're not going to be any happier thinking about them. So I don't think about them.

And I really have done everything that I said I did do. The rest is just a story that somebody else made up.

I wanted to be part of a high-class scene of musicians. It was half-inspired because I didn't have many friends, and I was hoping that I would meet people and fall in love and start a community around me, the way they used to do in the '60s.

The act of surrendering sort of puts me in a different mindset that allows me to be more of a channel - because I'm not holding on so tightly to things, I'm letting go, and I find that in letting go I become more of a channel for life to really happen on life's terms. I mean, maybe that sounds sort of metaphysical, but that's honestly how I feel.

Dark and lonely. I need somebody to hold me

I’ve been really blessed to have a lot of romance in my life. It’s like my last luxury.

God has saved me a million times, so I think He mustve enjoyed my song.

I pretend I'm not hurt, I walk about the world like I'm having fun.

Be like snow - cold, but beautiful.

when your happiness is someone else's happiness, that is love